Verse IV.6 Variations
तत्फलं परमा बोधिर्बोधेः सत्त्वः परिग्रहः
tatphalaṃ paramā bodhirbodheḥ sattvaḥ parigrahaḥ
ཚོགས་གཉིས་དག་ནི་དེ་ཡི་རྒྱུ། །
དེ་འབྲས་བྱང་ཆུབ་མཆོག་ཡིན་ཏེ། །
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཅན་ཡོངས་སུ་འཛིན། །
"The cause of that," to the two accumulations;
"The result of that," to supreme awakening;
"Taking hold," to the beings of awakening;
Dont les deux accumulations forment la cause. Le fruit alors atteint est l’Éveil suprême Qui prend en charge l’Éveil au cœur des êtres.
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Obermiller (1931) [9]
- The factors of deliverance are the 10 Stages,
- And the 2 Accumulations are their cause,
- The result—it is Supreme Enlightenment,
- And the living being (fit for the attainment of it)
- Represents the favourable sphere.
Takasaki (1966) [10]
- [Here] 'Deliverance' means the 10-fold Stage [of Bodhisattvas],
- 'Its cause' means the 2-fold Accumulation,
- 'The result of this Accumulation' is the Highest Enlightenment,
- '[Its] receptacle' means the living beings
- Who accept the Enlightenment.
Fuchs (2000) [11]
- The ten levels definitively reveal release.
- The two accumulations provide their cause.
- Supreme enlightenment is the fruit of these.
- Enlightenment in beings is fully sustained.
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- Brunnhölzl, Karl. When the Clouds Part: The Uttaratantra and its Meditative Tradition as a Bridge between Sūtra and Tantra. Boston: Snow Lion Publications, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, 2014.
- With Schmithausen, MB is to be read as yā yatra (confirmed by DP gang gang du) instead of J yāvac ca (yā is also found and explained in IV.4c)
- As Schmithausen points out, this verse needs to be connected back to line IV.3d.
- All the instances of "of that"refer to the phrase that immediately precedes them.
- Skt. bodeḥ sattvaḥ parigrahaḥ. This refers to bodhisattvas as the ones who take hold of or attain awakening.
- Both DP and C read "the bhūmis."
- Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
- Takasaki, Jikido. A Study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra): Being a Treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha Theory of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Serie Orientale Roma 33. Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (ISMEO), 1966.
- Fuchs, Rosemarie, trans. Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra. Commentary by Jamgon Kongtrul and explanations by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso. Ithaca, N. Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2000.